Mayor Rob Ford vowed Sunday to keep trying to contract out city services.

Ford — who had yet to comment publicly on last week’s council vote to slow his push to contract out cleaning jobs — made the pledge during his Sunday Newstalk 1010 radio show.

Council voted 29-12 last week to ensure any future attempts to contract out cleaning jobs goes through the government management committee and city council. Because cleaning contracts moving ahead were under the city’s $20 million threshold, they were to be approved by bureaucrats rather than politicians. The vote ensures council would have the final say on whether Ford could continue to contract out cleaning jobs.

“We’re contracting out. They just delayed it; they slowed it down a little bit,” Ford told listeners.

Ford claimed on the show city cleaners make $64,000 a year not including benefits. Deputy Mayor Doug Holyday said earlier this week that number would take into account salary and benefits combined.

“There was councillors down there that are sitting here justifying this, I have the utmost respect for cleaners but I’m sorry, we can’t pay these people $64,000 when we can get it done in the private sector between $30,000 and $40,000,“ Ford said.

Councillor Doug Ford also came out swinging, blasting “some of these nutcases in the media” for asking where the mayor is all the time.

“When people say, 'Where’s the mayor?' the mayor’s out there working his ass off talking to residents and fixing the problems,” Councillor Ford said, pointing to his brother's visit Friday to a Toronto Community Housing building in Etobicoke.